Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant young scientist, discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and creates a living being from dead flesh. Horrified by his own creation, he abandons it — and unleashes a tragedy of loneliness, revenge and despair. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) is the founding masterpiece of Gothic and science fiction, a haunting meditation on ambition, responsibility and what it means to be human.